Who Is Hosting Eurovision Asia 2026? Woody Milintachinda and Cindy Bishop

Woody Milintachinda and Cindy Bishop will host Eurovision Asia 2026. The two presenters were announced on Friday 25 September 2026 by host broadcaster Channel 3 and organiser Voxovation, and will front the Grand Final at One Bangkok Forum on Saturday 14 November.

Both are Thai, both work comfortably in English, and both are established names well beyond a single channel — which answers most of the questions this page was asking before the announcement.

Woody Milintachinda

Vuthithorn “Woody” Milintachinda, born in Bangkok in 1976, is one of Thailand’s best-known talk-show hosts.

He started on radio in 2000 as a bilingual DJ, became a VJ at MTV Thailand in 2003, and built his own production company the following year. The show that made his name is Woody Talk, an interview format whose guests have ranged from Thai celebrities to international figures.

He is also a producer and promoter. He founded the S2O Songkran Music Festival, the water-and-dance-music festival that has become a major annual event in Bangkok. The connection is hard to miss: Eurovision Asia is produced by S2O Productions, which shares its name with the festival he founded.

Cindy Bishop

Cindy Bishop — Sirinya Burbridge — was born in Bangkok in 1978 and raised in Pattaya. She won Miss Thailand World in 1996 and has worked across Asia as a model, actress and presenter for three decades.

International audiences are most likely to know her as the host of Asia’s Next Top Model, which she fronted for its later seasons. That is directly relevant experience: an English-language competition format with contestants and viewers from across the region, which is very close to the job description here.

She is also a UN Women Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific.

What the casting tells us

Before the announcement we set out what the constraints pointed to. It is fair to check that against what happened.

“Expect more than one.” Right — two hosts, the standard for a show of this size.

“The Grand Final will aim high rather than use in-house continuity announcers.” Right. Both are stars in their own right.

“Channel 3 talent is the obvious pool.” Only partly. Neither host is known mainly as a Channel 3 presenter, and Woody’s link to the contest runs through its production side rather than its broadcaster.

“A Thai–international pairing is plausible.” Not quite. Both hosts are Thai. What the pairing delivers instead is two bilingual presenters, which solves the same problem — an eleven-country show needs to be followed in English — without casting from outside the host country.

When the show starts

The Grand Final starts at 20:30 Bangkok time on Saturday 14 November: 13:30 GMT and 14:30 CET.

A correction. Until 14 October this page said “around 19:30 Bangkok time”, as the start was reported alongside the presenter announcement, and called the “14:30 CET” printed by some outlets an hour out. The outlets were right. The contest’s own page gives 14:30 CET (20:30 in Bangkok), and the official YouTube stream is scheduled for the same moment. Local start times for every competing country are on our how to watch page.

An earlier version of this page described a two-hour show. The running time hasn’t been officially confirmed, and we’ve removed the figure.

What is still unannounced

The presenters were one of several gaps. As of 7 October, these remain open:

• The running order, and how it will be decided
• The interval act and any opening performance
• The jury composition for the Grand Final
• Any green-room or online host

What has been filled in since August: the venue (One Bangkok Forum, confirmed 21 September), the presenters (25 September) and ticket sales (open since 1 October — see our tickets and venue guide).

For how the final month is likely to unfold, see our run-in timeline.

Last updated 7 October 2026. This page was first published before the presenters were announced and has been rewritten with the confirmed names.